It's possible to do that now using symbolic links and building a 'alpha'
subtree under pkgsrc. It's not something I think the pkgsrc team should
do, nor would I use it, but it is certainly not a hard thing to do.
Masao Uebayashi wrote:
>
> I'm wondering that it would be nicer if package sources are separated
> not by category but alphabet, initial of each ${PKGNAME}, like
>
> /usr/pkgsrc/0/0verkill
> /usr/pkgsrc/0/6to4
> :
> /usr/pkgsrc/A/AiCa
> :
> /usr/pkgsrc/a/a2ps
> /usr/pkgsrc/a/abacus
> :
>
> This way is good in some points:
>
> - easier to find a package source directory
> - more flexible to classify a package into multiple categories
> - more flexible to create/delete categories
> - can save time for pkg-managers to decide the category a package
> belongs to
>
> Category is used for browsing packages, that is, one already has a
> certain purpose and she/he looks for packages which are for her/his
> purpose. To fullfill such a case, it's sufficient to put a text (or
> html) file in which packages are sorted by category, like
>
> I18N:
> emacs
> mozilla
> :
> XML:
> PyXML
> XML-Xerces
> XmHTML
> :
> Language:
> STk
> egcs
> :
>
> It's easy and seems better to add 'COMMENT' to this file.
>
> I've not thought the feasibility, but I guess this is not impossible.
>
> Regards,
> Masao
>
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